Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

De balneis Puteolanis
Italy, ca. 1400
MS G.74 fol. 35r

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Bath, Pozzuoli, Unknown -- Two nude male figures ascend stairs located in underground cave. Below stairs, two clothed male figures, left hands raised, converse with a third male figure, sitting on edge of arcaded wall above waters inhabited by fish.
To right, three figures bathe in crenellated, arched structure.